Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...experience worth mentioning in boating, whereas those who have had the most experience are of lighter build. There is nothing in this fact, however, to indicate that the crew for this year will be light, as all the men will have sufficient opportunity for acquiring the necessary skill before the crew is chosen. All things considered, it is more than probable that this year's crew will be heavier than that of last year. The men who rowed last year are heavier than they were then, and most of the candidates are fully as heavy as the men who occupied...
...great interest taken in foot ball in England, and the skill with which it is played are well shown by the fact that the combined foot ball team of Oxford and Cambridge were recently defeated with ease by a London eleven...
...Cambridge and send her undergraduates to a man for a spin on the river, a great amount of the energy hitherto wasted in inaction, might be directed with great success into other channels than those three into which are turned at present all the strength of body and skill in team work which are found in the college. Lacross if properly fostered, ought in time to take a position equal to those sports, might by its manly attributes help to do away with the much heard of and greatly bewailed brutality in college sports...
...great interest taken in foot ball in England, and the skill with which it is played, is well shown by the fact that the combined foot ball teams of Oxford and Cambridge were recently defeated with ease by a London eleven...
...Pear in his piano solos showed considerable technical skill; but in the first, a nocturne by Chopin, he did not quite reach all the sentiment of the thing; his rendering of the Mazurka however was much more satisfactory. The success of the meeting however from an artistic of view was the movement from the Judassohn trio, played by Messrs. Hillerbrand, Loeb and Palmer: it was exceedingly well done, and evinced not only a high degree of technical skill and careful finish, but a fine artistic feeling that was satisfactory...